The problem is always when the sans culottes rise

Those in power and their hangers need to be very careful. 


They need to be constantly alert and aware if their sans culottes are on side. 

When you ignore them or speak against their preference:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-1059357.html

you do so at great peril to your life if not your standard usual average well-being.

When the sans cullotes rise, it is like a tsunami.

And before a tsunami, you are less than a pea.

When Mao Zedong raised his tsunami of his Cultural Revolution, his will was the will of the tsunami of his sans culottes.

No one could stand up against him.

He was utterly brilliant - devilishly so!